I think the Passport is nicer to look at and also from comments, the WDs are more reliable than Maxtors. I heard Maxtor branded products have Seagate Hard Drives in them these days, and recently they haven't been up to scratch.

They would have been very old drives they had left over. I know they also sell HP Pocket Media drives which also take 2 USB ports to power. They're going for around the same price for an 80GB. To be honest, if you're using them with a laptop, 2 USBs is too many if you're going to use a wireless mouse amongst other things attached to the computer.

Going to pick up a passport 120GB drive. Good value considering an extra $40 gives you only 40GB.

I think the Passport is nicer to look at and also from comments, the WDs are more reliable than Maxtors. I heard Maxtor branded products have Seagate Hard Drives in them these days, and recently they haven't been up to scratch.

- the drive is described as large in Cnets review in 2006. I had to go check what you were referring to with the Y-Cable bt34 - I've never seen one before. From what I can make out it should be fine running off just the one USB cable provided your using USB2.

I had to go check what you were referring to with the Y-Cable bt34 - I've never seen one before. From what I can make out it should be fine running off just the one USB cable provided your using USB2.

it's not really a USB 1 or 2 issue... it's just that some drives require more power to start up than the USB spec provides for... and some laptops in particular also put out lower than maximum USB spec power... and this may vary from port to port on the same computer...

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